And here’s my favorite, from author Thomas E. Ricks: “I’ve known David Petraeus since he was a colonel and written two books in which he appeared, but I still learned a lot about him from this book. All Infeels at times like we are sitting at his side in Afghanistan, reading his e-mails over his shoulder.”

Now look at the Amazon.com customer reviews. Apparently, the book stinks. What’s more, it stinks for some pretty obvious reasons.

Way back in February, a reader named Robert J. Alberts noted, “Paula is obviously a fan and didn’t have any objectivity in the book. Petraeus is either awesome or super awesome. OK. Got it. Next?

There is no more depth.” Someone who may or may not really be named Adam Smith also wrote in February, “You’ll love this book if you like bureaucratic history and thinly veiled hero worshiping.”

Another reviewer adds, “More than a little over the top for hero-worship of [Petraeus.]”
Overall, the book receives an average of fewer stars from its readers than the four that adorned the general’s uniform.
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When will women stop being silly over men who have no respect for them as equals.

Many of us are slowly coming to that reality. It is all about lies to maintain a superiority that they got artificially. The reality of the attack on Ambassador Rice by McCain shows that.

A black man threw down the gauntlet, but the gutless wonders like McCain will not pick it up, they prefer to attack a defenseless woman.
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Rice’s Sept. 16 assessment of the Benghazi attack matched CIA and DNI analysis at that time.

As noted above, Rice’s Sept. 16 statements mirror the CIA’s Sept. 15 assessment and the DNI’s office said a week later that just after the Sept. 11 attack, “there was information that led us to assess that the attack began spontaneously following protests” and that it “provided that initial assessment to Executive Branch officials and members of Congress, who used that information to discuss the attack publicly and provide updates as they became available.”

If Rice’s talking points came from the White House, officials there didn’t alter them much from what the intelligence agencies were saying.
McCain wants a special Watergate-style investigation into the Benghazi attacks, but lawmakers, including many of his Republican colleagues, appear to be satisfied with letting the ongoing investigations take their course.

It also turns out that many Republicans in the Senate aren’t too keen on pre-judging Rice either, should the President nominate her. And if McCain was really interested in getting the facts about Benghazi, he could have attended yesterday’s closed door hearing on the matter instead of holding a press conference attacking Rice and Obama.

So it’s clear that McCain’s real problem here is with Obama, and on that point, the president suggested that McCain give him a call. “If Senator McCain and Senator Graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me,” Obama said yesterday. “And I’m happy to have that discussion with them.”
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What’s even more clear is that he won’t fuck with Obama. Not face to face because he knows Obama will rip him a new asshole.